AbdulAlhazred
Legend
Actually, the full write up could be sitting on his desk write now. Mearls could be tossing it out there like it hasn't been created yet and it's in the "maybe" stage.
Nobody knows.
I think if you met Mike or Steve you'd find that they're just gamers like the rest of us and really like D&D. They happen to be making a living at it, which is pretty cool. In fact I have it on good authority they are totally cool people. Granted they aren't supposed blab out everything they're up to, but you know 95% of the reason for that is just that a lot of what they work on is tentative or might change, or tied into bigger things outside of the game dev side of things. If they start blabbing about it then something changes, then everyone is running around gnashing teeth, etc. I very seriously doubt any of them has ever or will ever lie to or deceive anyone for any sum of money (surely not any sum you can get in the world of RPGs). If Steve says X, then its X, and that's really it. Could be there are things he hasn't said, but there is zero chance he's going to come here and say something with the INTENT that it will be interpreted to mean something different than the plain words.